Sensory Assessment
This is the drainage from an ear
What is otorrhea?
This eye condition is associated with difficulty seeing close and is age related
What is Presbyopia?
This is the term when a patient develops hair loss.
What is Alopecia?
This is the term for a intact/nonintact skin area with a dark red-maroon-purple discoloration that has a deep wound bed.
What is Deep Tissue Injury?
This type of burn is associated with an inhalation injury.
What is flame/fire?
This vision assessment chart should be used for a patient who cannot read or recognize letters of the alphabet
What is the E Chart?
This is the tone to use when talking to a patient with presbycusis.
This is the term used to describe a slit or crack-like sore
What is a fissure?
This is the primary assessment finding of a patient with jaundice.
What is yellow discoloration of the skin?
This is the number one priority in the emergent stage of caring for a burn patient.
What is airway and breathing?
The structure of the patient's eye that is involved during cataract surgery
What is the lens?
This is the primary goal for patient's who have Meniere disease
What is safety/Preventing injury?
This is the term used to describe several hair follicles that are infected and form an abscess.
What is carbuncle?
This is the time of day to avoid the sun for best skin cancer prevention.
What is 10 am - 4 pm?
This is the percentage of body affected with a burn covering both arms and the anterior trunk
What is 36%?
These are the cells in the eye responsible for night vision
Rods
This is the type of hearing loss that hearing aids are most effective with.
What is Conductive?
This is the term used to describe small red/purplish dots.
What is petechiae?
This is the description of a wound that has a hard, black necrotic layer of skin on top.
What is Eschar?
This is the purpose of an escharotomy.
What is to help restore blood flow to the extremity?
This is the abbreviation for PERRLA
What is Pupils equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation?
This is the type of vision loss that is associated with macular degeneration
What is central vision loss?
This type of biopsy requires sutures to close
What is incisional?
This is the best equipment to use when irrigating a patient's infected pressure ulcer.
What is a 30-mL syringe with an 18G needle?
This is the type of burn that involves the muscle and bone.
What is full thickness?